Hello my beautiful people-
First, I thank The Lord for the awesome time you all had with your families over the holidays. This is what I have been walking through and it is radical, enjoy!
How do you capture complete freedom in a blog?
I feel like I've discovered treasure, and I'm too excited about what I've found to be upset about the time that I walked in oblivion.
You might have heard this phrase in church:
"For freedom Christ has set us free..." -Galatians 5:1
OR
"….The old has passed away; behold the new has come." 2 Corinthians 5:17
I didn't understand what these verses truly meant till this last month.
What if I told you man could be free of sin?
What if I told you that once a person came to Christ, there natural response is to love?
What if I told you that sin could no longer control us?
So long I struggled with drinking and I always thought "I will never be free of this." What I didn't realize is that drinking had zero power over me, it only had power because I gave it power.
"If we believe we are sinners, we continue to sin." -Spirit Wars
What if I told you that the fight isn't against yourself once you come to Christ but Satan. What if I told you that fear, depression, inadequacy, anger and jealousy are actually spirits that you have authority to cast off of you.
They are NOT within you but outside of you. Ephesians 6:12 "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
This is the power of Christ, realizing that we are in fact pure and blameless in his sight once we have accepted him therefore we have POWER over the devil.
"We have the power to direct our bodies according to their true spiritual battle." -Spirit Wars
Through the blood of Jesus we can DEMAND that spirits be gone. Matthew 10:1 "And he called to Him His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction."
As Christians, we do have the ability to love well, regardless of our past. Whether this was said in church or not, I never understood the fierceness and boldness I possessed as a daughter, until now.
If no one has told you, when you are made a NEW creation, it literally means the old cannot touch you. When it comes back to haunt you, don't fight yourself but the spirits. It may sound silly but you have the power to tell it to GO AWAY. The devil is real and he will try to attack you, distract you from what you were really made for, but remember, God has dominion over the devil and his spirits therefore we do to.
This is a trippy concept but I can attest it changed my life. Now I no longer fight myself, or beat up myself when I struggle but have directed the fight against the right person, Satan.
Please explore this for yourself. Take the things in your life that you thought controlled you and tell them to be gone. But remember this "always stay on high ground" (Spirit Wars) when fighting the devil. For a long time I battled drinking but would constantly agree to hang out in bars therefore setting myself up for failure. We have to decide to be free.
I find myself in a place of ever wondering why I waited. I hope this helps my friends, this is a concept I did not hear in the church but will forever change ones life once they understand it. Ask the father. Ask him if you have questions. Ask him to help you understand this more. Remember, he delights in freeing his children!
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." Galatians 5:22-24
My people, this is your natural state. These spirits are the ones that take up house inside you. You do possess the ability to love well.
"What I tell you in the dark, say in the light. And what you hear whispered proclaim on the housetops." Matthew 10:27
Here's to walkin it out,
Ellie
